Q&A | Kaiser Chiefs’ Peanut on the studio he just opened in Leeds

Nick ‘Peanut’ Baines plays keys with UK rock act Kaiser Chiefs. He’s also a photographer, and as well as capturing his own bandmates and their crazy experiences together, he does the odd shoot with other acts, like Streets of Laredo, a New Zealand band who opened for KC on their 2014 US tour.

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Yoani Sánchez: The day peace broke out, in Cuba

“Peace broke out!” the old teacher was heard to say, on the day that Barack Obama and Raúl Castro reported the reestablishment of relations between Cuba and the United States. The phrase captured the symbolism of a moment that had all the connotations of an armistice reached after a long war.  Continue →